Chapter 132 - My Arms Still Work
Chris
I almost couldn't recognize them. They had both changed so much from the picture I held in my head from how they were before. From the time before people were forced to fight to survive.
Both had seen better days but they were clean enough to indicate they weren't too bad off. The grime covering me was far worse than what was on them.
I had two days of grueling fights over pylons caked on that I had yet to clean up from. The ending of the tutorial had been a time crunch and I had little chance to do anything other than fight. Even sleep was put off for when we weren't put on a timer.
That was the first thing I noted was different. The countdown was how we told time and with it gone, I had no idea how long it took to get here. It felt like a few hours but I was unable to put an exact minute to it like before.
They were both wearing leathers for armor and even though I knew they would be, it still threw me off a bit. Some part of me still expected to see them wearing normal clothes even though that was unrealistic.
After giving my Mother a giant bear hug, I moved on to my Brother. I still didn't know how to react to what I was seeing but a hug was in order no matter what his story was.
Gabriel and I started out with the same hair color as children but his darkened as he grew up into a light brown instead of the sandy blonde mine stopped at. I was a touch taller than him but he always claimed he was still growing, even though he was over 21. He had always been a skinnier kid growing up and he had kept that after the System arrived, instead of the bulk I usually carried. Except now that bulk was mainly muscle instead of what it was before.
Repeating the gesture with him, albeit slightly awkwardly with the chair, our initial greeting was over.
"Tell me everything. What happened to you guys, how was your tutorial? What classes do you have? What profession do you have?" I couldn't contain my excitement. We hadn't been away that long but it felt like years had passed since I had seen them last.
I was so giddy I almost forgot to use [Identify(C)]. So many people had a way to block my generic skill I forgot to use it most of the time.
[Human: Level 38]